> In relation to the film's $110 million budget, it wasn't all it could've
> been, but I still enjoyed it regardless, even if it did put a serious dent
> in Mr. Norrington's future directorial chances.

> It does indeed show the fan response, but as far as I'm concerned, PotC is
> by far the cheesier and more mainstream movie. It does have the better
> performances of the two movies, but LXG has a tighter pace, more
> controlled action (the editing in PotC was quite icky in parts whereas LXG
> maintained a relatively good system of editing action scenes; better than
> I've seen in a lot of movies of its kind). Also, as a rule of thumb, it
> seems that when two big blockbusters come out, one always
> "loses" in terms of critical abuse and box-office intake. Case
> in point last year: Spider-Man beating Episode II. Episode II still did
> well but certainly got beat on harder by the critics, whom I hold in less
> than high regard.

> Go to rottentomatoes.com; another site where you can witness the carnage
> against LXG and the overpraise of PotC. I can't say as I'm surprised
> critics liked Pirates more. It has a generic and pulsing MV score, a
> flashy cast, and it's about pirates. . . something that we haven't seen
> for a long time. LXG is just another comic book movie, which you can tell
> critics are getting sick of.

> Absolutely 100% agreed.

> Exactly.

> Sayonara!
:) Jockolantern

Now, I realize that this may be a bit overdue since the last post on this issue was last August, but your comment about the iTunes music store, Christian, is way out of date and entirely incorrect. The iTunes music store is connected to anyone using iTunes 4 or higher, which I know is not available for OS 9 users, but come on. If you have a Mac and are still running OS 9 and haven't switched to OS X yet, then you need to get with it and quit living back in the stone age. Also, as of last quarter, as eveyone knows, Steve Jobs released iTunes for windows, which is exactly the same as the Mac version. Store and all. So anyone running 2000, or XP can use the store. Plus the fact that legal downloads, despite your opinion, are growingly becoming the new generation of music purchasing as Apple now owns more than 78% of the legal downloading business in the world. Yes, THE WORLD. Meaning that it is NOT only available in the US. At least not anymore. So all you windows users quit bitching about the soundtrack's iTunes only release and just downlaod iTunes. Plus, it's free, and the Apple apps are a 100 times better then any applications that Microsoft ever comes up with. Especially for music or video media where WMP and Moviemaker suck balls big time!!!